{"id":147265,"date":"2022-09-12T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=147265"},"modified":"2022-09-12T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:45:12","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-h-l-mencken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=147265","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from H. L. Mencken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out&#8230; without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.&#8221; ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 \u2013 January 29, 1956<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.&#8221; ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 \u2013 January 29, 1956<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.&#8221; ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 \u2013 January 29, 1956<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart&#8217;s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.&#8221; ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 \u2013 January 29, 1956<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.&#8221; ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 \u2013 January 29, 1956<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.&#8221; ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 \u2013 January 29, 1956<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._L._Mencken\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/H-L-Mencken-1928-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out&#8230; without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.&#8221; ~ H. L. Mencken September 12, 1880 \u2013 January 29, 1956 &#8220;For every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/H-L-Mencken-1928.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147267,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147265\/revisions\/147267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}